2008: Basstown and Beyond
New Year’s Eve is always something to celebrate. sQuare productions has made a habit of it, celebrating the last three celebrations at the Melcher Street loft in the Ft. Point Channel and before that, River Gods. Since that area has been stripped of most of the artists studios, this year our friends Basstown have provided a brilliant location — the independent and dance-friendly venue in the hip enclave of Allston: Great Scott.
Michael Potvin is a member of Campaign for Real Time (or C4RT for short) and, as it turns out, a current resident of our Speaking in Code address in Jamaica Plain. He is also a founder of SiC-featured party Thunderdome:
C4RT - “In Your Dreams (PTVN Remix)”
Provotaceur is a local electro-pop band that has a legion of stalwarts in the dark electro scene who also put on a great show. DJ Etan and DJ Die Young are killing the crowd these days. Click the flyer above for advance tickets.
In the mode of year-end selections, Speaking in Code co-producer and music writer Philip Sherburne put together an MP3 mix-tape of some of the finest moody sounds of the year (+ classics), which already has an unfathomable 11,000 hit count at zshare.net. In includes our favorite Susanna and the Magical Orchestra a number of times (which itself is a project of musical genius Deathprod) and we though to share it here. the tracklisting:
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Rune Grammofon)
White Magic, “Katie Cruel” (Drag City)
Apparat, “Arcadia” (Shitkatapult)
Matthew Dear, “Deserter” (Ghostly)
Iron & Wine, “Naked As We Came” (Sub Pop)
Six Organs of Admittance, “Words for Two” (Drag City)
Michael Andrews Featuring Gary Jules, “Mad World” (Sanctuary)
Tim Buckley, “Song to the Siren” (Elektra)
Talk Talk, “The Colour of Spring” (EMI)
So Percussion, “June” (Cantaloupe Music)
Thom Yorke, “The Eraser” (XL)
Apparat, “Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)” (Shitkatapult)
Burial, “Distant Lights” (Hyperdub)
Grizzly Bear, “Easier” (Warp)
Prince, “Condition of the Heart” (Warner/Paisley Park)
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, “Condition of the Heart” (Rune Grammofon)
März, “Everybody Had a Hard Year” (Karaoke Kalk)
José González, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Cortex)
Philip Sherburne - “Every Single Day is a Yellow Day” (zshare)
We sent out an update and mix via the sQuare email list about the film, but it seems 2008 will see the release of the movie, more soon. Happy new year.
C4RT - In Your Dreams (PTVN Remix): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Philip Sherburne - Every Single Day Is A Yellow Day (Mixtape): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download